Physics
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May 1909
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Nature, Volume 80, Issue 2065, pp. 369 (1909).
Physics
Scientific paper
UNTIL about the end of the Japanese ancien régime, i.e. 1867, it was an invariable annual usage with the people of Yedo (now Tokyo), on the eighth of the second moon, to erect high before every house a bamboo pole with a basket on its top (Kawakita, ``Morisada Mankô,'' ed. 1908; vol. ii., p. 251). However, from Tanehiko's ``Yôshabako'' (Yedo, 1841, bk. i., ch. ix.), it appears that about the seventeenth century a basket or a sieve was displayed on a tall pole or above the main doorway, not only on this so-called Work-start Day (Koto-hajime), but also on the eighth of the twelfth moon, named Koto-osame, or Work-finish Day-both these appellations primarily of agricultural concern, indicating to us a bygone age, when the New Year holidays of the Japanese husbandmen, with their preliminaries and after-games, covered some thirty days besides the whole first moon.
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